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I understand why this is bad, but I personally would sign up for a Microsoft account anyway. Mainly, I don't want all my stuff in "C:\Users\micha". Is there a way to set your usern…

When FASTA was invented in 1985, generally sequencing reads would be about half that. The simplicity of FASTA seems like a dream compared to the GenBank flat file format used befor…

Using machine learning, he counted all of the yurts. Counting all of the yurts that happen to be using machine learning is a way more difficult problem.

> I assume the author means "out of all the ISAs I know"? Out of all the ISAs where they know whether it provides integer division or not.

This is not "hard-coded" as I would describe it. It is defined in `gv.el`: (gv-define-setter buffer-string (store) `(insert (prog1 ,store (erase-buffer)))) Unfortunately, it is mar…

This used to be the case until Emacs 24.1, in 2012. Passing a nil argument to a minor mode function call now ENABLES the minor mode unconditionally. This is so that you can write e…

Wherever possible, I use sina plots, which provide many of the advantages of violin plots while actually showing the individual data points. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sina_plot…

When would you need to use rdmsr and wrmsr in a crisis?

I wonder if they swapped the benchmark results somehow. Because on my computer, I get roughly the same times but with {} twice as fast as dict().

I don't think so, but in 2023 "PC" can refer to a whole bunch of different things, and "5150" is precisely clear about what it refers to.

I hope it keeps its blazing-fast startup. I regularly used Paint instead of Photoshop on a system where I had both because Paint starts instantly but Photoshop took a bit.

The Bay Area has inadequate public transport for a metro of its size, but its utility is kind of another universe from the Austin's CapMetro.

This is super cool. I use Emacs `abbrev-mode` for taking contemporaneous notes but autosuggesting words would be great.

It seems like you may be reading some things into my comment that I didn't write? I made no claims about the procedure being fair or unfair—I'm just describing what it is.

I am faculty at University of Toronto. As part of the process of considering someone for tenure here, the university solicits six appraisals from relevant experts at other institut…

Of course, we don't NEED a new Twitter, but many folks WANT a new Twitter.

They're in good company—the C standard also has something called an "expression statement" which is similar.

> A Python program may contain statements or expressions. Here's a Python program that contains no statements: 42. According to the Python Language Reference, that is a Python prog…

I like the four-document model. While it isn't a perfect fit for all cases, for many it is a good start. We wrote a review of bioinformatics software documentation, which includes …

How else are they supposed to cross from one corner to the other?

Here, "GB" stands for "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland", not "Great Britain". > The codes are chosen, according to the ISO 3166/MA, "to reflect the significant…

It's based on the errors the proposers actually found in the wild, which seem to mostly be people attempting to use constant powers of 2 or 10.